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100% Digital Inclusion Leeds
100% Digital Leeds provide a range of links to external toolkits, webinars, funding opportunities, training etc. Includes a tool kit for Digital Inclusion for Health and Social Care and information on Digital Health Hubs in Leeds.
Digital literacy courses
- Digital literacy: succeeding in a digital world is a free course developed by the Open University.The course is avaialable as elearning or the course materials can be downloaded as a PDF: open.edu/openlearn/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=105148
- Professional services firm Accenture has teamed up with FutureLearn to provide a suite of free digital skills courses. Covering topics such as web analytics, social media, and artificial intelligence, these courses are designed to equip learners with essential digital skills for the modern century workplace.
Guides to help patients use online health services
- NHS England has created a step-by-step guide to help people understand how the NHS app works: digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-app/toolkit/step-by-step-guides
- NHS England has a set of easy read guides to help people use and access GP online services: england.nhs.uk/publication/gp-online-services-easy-read-guides
- Learn My Way - accesing your online health records. A series of elearning units that include topics of registering with a GP, booking a GP appointment online , ordering a repeat subscription online and accesing your online health records: www.learnmyway.com/explore-the-subjects/managing-your-health-online
Resources and guidance to help you promote digital literacy
- The Information Literacy Group website supports practitioners and researchers from around the world with an interest in information and digital literacy: infolit.org.uk/
- The Department for Education essential digital skills framework defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. It also includes key statistics on people’s digital skills in the UK: gov.uk/government/publications/essential-digital-skills-framework